Author of **The Blade of Picardy" « Copyright by Bobbs-Merrill Co. (WNU Service.) CHAPTER XI—Continued wn} Tn “Of course,” sald Pinl absently, “of course.” His dark eyes considered Polito, and I Imagined that I could read the plan forming in his crafty brain. With the lieutenant. as his prisoner he held a powerful card In his game of Woman that he doubtless intended to play, for the Senorita’s beauty had cast a spell upon him, and the love she bore her brother might be used. “This lieutenant prisoner of ours, Garde, must be taken to a safe place.” “Aye, my colonel” “and I fear, almost, to give him in charge of a squad of Indian soldiers, Yor the men of Venezuela patrol the streets of Valencia, and the life of Lieutenant Lamartina might therefore be endangered. If I may prevall upon you to escort him to the calabozo and to deliver him into the keeping of Captain Lopez—1" “Assuredly.” Pini thought a moment. “You un- derstand, Garde, that you will be held personally responsible for the pris- oner?” “Have no fear, my colonel" There was apprehension in Dulce's eyes, and she whispered anxiously, as I bent over her hand: “Do you leave me thus, Loren?” “I must save Polito,” I said softly; «1 will return within the hour” 1 smiled reassuringly. “A little craft, my own, a little guile, and we have won.” She gave me a divine smile, kissed her brother tenderly, and then we went out, leaving the Senorita and Pinl together, “Take hold of my stirrup, Polito,” I said, “and walk beside the horse, as & prisoner should." We traveled two streets eastward and then turned north. “If you are unfamiliar with the city of Valencia, Major Garde, I might tell you that the calabozo lies southeast.” “Therefore we go north, for I do not like calabozos; and you must be very soon upon the road to Puerto Cabello” + “Senor,” Polito, he cried, “you cannot do this thing! I cannot permit you." “It is not that you permit, Polito— you are my prisoner. Your life is in danger, and because of you, your sister, who loves you, is in deadly danger.” “Perhaps I am stupld,” he said. “Don't you see, my friend? Colonel Pinl is at present commandant of Valencia, his word Is law. If the fas. cinating colonel, whose amours are notorious over Venezuela, falls in his attempt to win the favor of the Senorita—as, indeed, he must—he will use your life as a cudgel to compel submission on her part. She loves you, Polito, and, therefore, would save your life at any cost” “Must we purchase freedom at your expense, I laughed. ‘No harm wi me, Cheer up; road to Puerto Cabello, Then I shall return with all speed to Colonel Pini, who may have other errands for me” Halting anon, before a tiny fonda, I lifted the fat somnolent storekeeper out of a late siesta by ald of a lusty yell. From him I purchased a simple, two-piece suit of blue, a wide som- brero, and a pair of alpargatas for my prisoner's feet. 1 helped him trans. form himself from a lieutenant In his majesty’'s service to a lowly peon. “We will look you up, Polito, some day, for peace will come to this un- happy country now. Please remem- ber that Major Garde has killed Col- onel Fuentes, so you may go back in safety to your service, If the star of my luck does not forsake me I shall deal definitely with Colonel Pini be. fore another hour has passed. Now adios.” He took my hand, tears in his eyes, then he turned and bent his steps toward the port of Cabello. I gave my horse his head and we raced through the streets of Valencia, to the danger of all and sundry, for my mental picture of Pinl and the Senorita was not a pleasant one. | had determined, at last, to settle my affair with the clever colonel, The Senora Ybarra let me in and, as I heard a murmur of voices from the chamber I stopped at the portal and, hidden by the rude portieres, lis- tened, The voice of Colonel Pini was pleading, passionate, “Do not say no, my lady,” he eried; “] was mad with wine that day In Maracay, and for that I offer humble apologies, Every hour since that mo- ment I have been filled with contri- tion. Will you not listen to my words of pleading, Senorita?” I heard her frightened murmur, and Pinl went on again: “I am a poor slave, Senorita, to my love for thee; I am a moth burned in the flame of Yi, beanty, May I ask?" “No,” she sald, “no! Ah, Dios-al- ways and for ever—no!” “When one Is mad with love, Senorita, one might do regrettable things, The city of Valencia belongs to me, dear lady: as commandant I hold the power of life and death over those within its limits, For only a small portion of your love that power of life and death will be put into your keeping.” “What do you mean, Senor” she gasped. “Will you tell me, Senor, what Is In your mind-—ere | go mad?” “Assuredly; your comely brother, Lieutenant Polito, whom you doubtless Polite, Senor?” love with a sister's sacrificing love, waits even now for the hour of his execution, for Spain has taught us how to deal with prisoners. It may be my desire, as commandant of Valencia, to save him." “Ah, Mother Mary!" she cried. “Is your design so evil a thing . , can a man, professing his love, harbor so vile—17" She stopped, her face flam- ing, slim hands pressed against her bosom, for I had stepped into the room, “Loren,” she gasped, “ah, dear G—d, Loren!" CHAPTER XII The Lure of Lamartina “On his knees,” I said, laughing, “on his accursed knees—and not, I think, in prayer!” Pini leaped to his feet, hlack anger written large on his face, Forgetting the presence of the Senorita, he rasped a potent oath, “Oh, my colonel, for thee!” “Give yourself no trouble, will make my own should order you to under arrest to the calabozo—" “I would be I would apologize major, 1 apologies, If 1 report yourself officer of the compelled to refuse, colonel, for I do not know the way to the calabozo.” Which was a stupid and tactless thing to say, for I should have kept him in ignorance of Polito’s escape, Dulce gasped, and I continued: “Be. sides, General Bolivar, in your pres. ence, gave me his permission to offer challenge to you after the battle of mys a The Impetus of His Falling Body Drove My Point Into His Chest. Carabobo should be won, We have won that contest, therefore, | am ask ing now for the pleasure of our post- poned meeting.” “You have a smiling. “Aye, sword,” sald Pini, my colonel, and the oppor. Gani to use it shall afford me a fine delig gut wily colonel knew, of course, that my wounded arm would take from me at least one-half of my efficiency as a swordsman, and acting as usual upon impulse, I had given no thought to my injury, or to anything, in fact, except my wild desire to kill him, “If you do not know the way to the prison,” he inquired, “this young lieu- tenant brother of the Senorita" “Is entirely out of your reach, Senor, which leaves the Senorita free to act as the dictates of her heart shall in- dicate” Now she ran into my arms. “Loren, my own, you should not have done it, He will make sou pay. Ah, dear heart, it is a noble thing for yon to do, yet your life—~Your arm, dear heart, you cannot handle a sword with a wounded arm.” I smiled upon her confidently. arm is well” “The Senorita then, shall witness a duel,” said Pini, who, during our “aside,” had written a note, He thrust his head out of a window and emitted a shrill whistle, whereupon a sergeant and a squad of twelve sol. diers marched into the room, The colonel proffered this note to the suboflicer. “That, sergeant, is an order for the execution of Major Garde, who stands before you If, after our duel, the major is still alive, he is to be taken under guard to the calabozo, where, as early tomorrow morning as light may permit, he will be shot.” Dulce clung to me, sobbing softly. “This note explains to the command. ing officer of the prison that Major Garde has permitted--aye, alded-—-a Spanish prisoner, Lieut, Polito Lamar. tina, to escape; a prisoner that I, com- mandant of Valencia, gave into his keeping.” Pini turned to me. “Have 1 spoken truth, Senor?” “My “Exactly, my colonel; I eould not have expressed It better myself.” “You will station your soldiers along the walls of this room,” Pini directed the sub-officer, “and you will offer no interference to our duel” “Yes, Colonel,” sald the sergeant, The room was quickly cleared, and we confronted each other in the cen- ter of it. Dulce stood by the ornate mantel, one hand upon it to support herself, the other pressed against her heart, her face pale, lps parted, and a haunting fear in the deep blue eyes, I turned to face her, and raised my blade In salute, “You will see me, dear one,” said I In French, “win an- other contest with the sword.” “Please God, Loren,” she whispered. “We contend, Major Garde,” sald Pinl with a light laugh, “for a pretty prize indeed.” “Aye, my colonel, the prize Is worth our best efforts.” 1 knew that, losing, I should leave her helpless. The mor- row, with its firing squad, gave me no uneasiness ; it was with this hour that I had to deal. “Then guard, Senor” “Aye, my colonel” His overconfidence, weakened state of my right arm, might, I imagined, be a handicap to him, so I permitted him to beat down my guard in the first wild, thrusting attack that he made, parrying only enough to protect my body from his drives, He was a good, but not a master swordsman, and-—but for my Injury-— he would not have been In any sense a match for me, 1 must use, there. fore, defensive tactics until he should tire, for greater strength and greater endurance was mine. He laughed aloud, for I think he felt the weakness of my wrist, the former strength of which had been my pride, I could only offer my blade in parry, yet I kept his point away from me, for 1 was quicker on my feet than he, and I had iplete control of my body I caught the Senorita's and smiled reassuringly, yet she must have seen my helplessness, for there was no answering smile on her face—only that expression of haunting terror. And a new and reckless determination pos- sessed me, I would win because 1 must win, I would kill this man if I had to do It even after his steel had found my heart, My benumbed arm grew weaker, so that I could barely feel the blows that I tried to parry. Had 1 not twisted my body In swift, ridiculous gestures his point would have found me a dozen times, He cried out Senor, because of the a more con eye, in vexation: “Dw you fence, or do you thus take soar afternoon Bah Are you fight, vord 7 exercise He attacked must needs retreat before bh rile enry, keeping eleny of the walls, ing ineffectual parry until my had lost its vigor and my wrist power to turn his blows, The wrenched from my grasp, fell, ing to the floor, and Pinl drove at my chest, Realizing drew back, Garde, 1 do not man” Yet I think, but for the presence of the Senorita, he would have done so, 1 knew that as far as fencing might be concerned, my right arm would never save me, so | gripped the hilt of the sword with my left hand, My left arm and wrist would be, [| was sure, inept, but they would lack neo tithe of strength, and strength might be, after all-in a contest with as un- skilful a duelist as the colonel-—suf- ficient, As his dashing charges became more deliberate, and the force of them re laxed, my confidence increased, for the professional smile had left his lips, his dancing eyes grew somber, and a pallor of fear touched the olive of his face, Then 1 advanced in ing and thrusting with no skill but with a deal of power, for (he blows that he parried shook him from heel to crown. “Had I one arm only, my colonel, you should have vanquished me with ease—but now" He gasped a fervent oath, and 1 continued: “You would leave an or- der for my execution—eh, my sophist and Providence has ordered yours, You would sell to the Senorita the life of her brother? A clever scheme, and worthy of you" “Carraca!” he gasped. He made one last, ineautious lunge at me and missed. The impetus of his falling body drove my point into his chest, He went to his knees, his fingers fastened around the naked blade. “That order of execution, sergeant.” he cried, “you will see to it: you will take him to the calabozo, and tomor- row morning--as early as light—ag- as—early . . J” He crashed, face down, upon the floor, and the sword broke under the impact of his fall, Now 1 felt the Seénorita’s arms around my neck, felt the tender touch of her lips, and 1 heard her volee eall ing my name over and over again, (TO BE CONTINUED. ff or. Barm its weapon, clatter. that 1 was he up, unarmed, “Pick It stab =a waiting defenseless attack, slash. The meant “camera,” to denote anything with an arched cover or roof. Hence ¢éame the Latin “camera,” meaning “a room.” and ulti. mately, through French, the English “chamber.” A common toy of the rich in Renaissance times was a dark room letting In light only through a small lens, which threw an inverted Image of primitive Aryan root “kam" “to bend,” and the Greek the scene outside on the wall opposite it. This was called a “camera ob scura” or “dark room.” The problem for the Inventors of photography was to make permanent the image in the “camera obscura”; hence the instru ment with which they ultimately se. complished it was called a “eamera.” «Exchange, Hopeless sorrow Is without wisdom HALL, PA Forgotten HEROES “By ELMO SCOTT WATSON The Perils of Peace HE end of war does not always mean the coming of peice. That fact was all too strongly Impressed upon the mind of Col. Robert KE. With ers of the Confederate army in April, 1805. He was commander of the mil ftary prison at Danville, Va, where were held more than 6,000 Union pris oners, guarded only by disabled Con- federates and men too old and bogs too young to serve in the field colonel himself had been wounded many times and was still partly dis abled from the last injury. All through the last winter of the Civil war the specter of famine had for the captives, their guards and the townspeople. Then came the pews that Richmond bad surrendered und a short time later President Davis and his cabinet passed through the city~—the days of the Confederacy were numbered. Came pext a detach- ment of Confederate cavalrymen who informed the colonel that they’ had orders to burn the bridges across the river and all the tobacco warehouses in Danville. Withers protested. It would mean a conflagration which would destroy the town, and since the Confederacy had collapsed in Virginia there military advantage to su h ruin. Finding his protests un aveiling, Colonel Withers declared that he would resist such destruction with force and his stand saved the bridges and the warehouses, The next, crisis came after the sur Appamattox. A large body soidiers from Lee's army Danville. Hungry they became excited at the ru mor that the warehouses contained the very things they ceeded and they were urged an by people from the sur rounding country who hoped to share in the loot, No sooner had he broken up the mob than some Federal “bummers” appeared. Should they enter, it was likely would the Federal pris Oners wh amoring for temper Wis after lured wus no rags rapidiy-gathering they release their an the priva- It they Ree wild be in the { CORROS rolled a group of arms i even BOON and was met by f whose though thelr number was small, overnwed these human vultures them on their way. The next day the advance guard of the Federal troops appeared and Col- Withers was happy to turn over determined attitude went onel bility for keeping order after the pris oners were released. So members the name of Robert E. With. ers. whose determination and courage saved it from the perils of peace which than the perils of war. *. * 0 Justice After 24 Years HE pattie of Bull lun In the Civil war had been fought and agnin the Union forces had been de feated The news stunned the North were greater second wus one which rankled 'n its mind aft er the ignominlous affair of July 21 1861. Rumor: of disloyalty and of sympathy with the Southern among certain officers In the Unlon army had been frequent before the public wanted a scapegoal. who tad been “out- Stonewall Union forces, smarted” by whe wns ready to furnish goat. He bad given Ma). Gen. Fitz John Porter certain orders the battle developed, to obey minutely. So in his report Pope shouldered the blame for the de feat off on to Porter been a brilliant one. But it could ir November, 1862 he was court martinted at Washington and in a trial the result of which was a fore gone conclusion, the charges, disobedience to orders and cownrdice in the face of the en. or profit under the government.” But Porter had proved himself a fighting man on the battlefield and » fighting man he intended to continue peing. For years he made repeated efforts to have his case reopened but hie appeals fell upon deal ears. Grant, whi'e 'resident. refused to intercede aud Bt was not until access was had to the Confederate records of the bat tle that new light was thrown upon the conse A military board voder President Heyes nequitted Porter of all fault ex: cept unwise criticism of his superior. 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